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Object Number 2004.29.5631
Display Title Chicken Dance Society
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Blackfoot, Chicken Dance Society"
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Dance
Subject
  • Chicken dance society
Department Photographic
Date ca. 1913
Artist Harry Pollard
Culture
  • Blackfoot
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms High Plains
Dimensions Overall: 19.05 x 24.13 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Collector W. S. Park

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